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The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael ScottWhen the legend that Nicholas Flamel lives due to his ability to make the elixir for life is discovered to be true, Dr. John Dee begins his plot to steal the Book of Abraham the Mage from him in order to rule the world, but knowing that they are the only ones with the power to stop him, Josh and Sophie quickly set their own plan in motion to do so.
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Amber & Dusk by Lyra SeleneRaised in the Dusklands where her power to create illusions was regarded as a curse, Sylvie has traveled to Coeur d'Or, where the Amber Empress, the cruel Severine, rules in hopes of finding her legacy--but the court is full of dark secrets and deadly intrigues, and Sylvie, now renamed Mirage, must learn to hone her magic, and find her way past the enmity of the empress to claim the place that is hers by right of birth.
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The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan StroudIntent on revenge, Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, summons Bartimaeus, a five-thousand-year-old djinni, to steal the Amulet of Samarkand, a mysterious and enigmatic artifact, from ruthless master magician Simon Lovelace, and, along with Nathaniel, becomes caught up in a dangerous world of espionage, blackmail, murder, and conspiracy.
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The Book Jumper by Mechthild GläserWhile visiting her mother's childhood home in Scotland, Amy discovers that she is able to jump into books and experience their stories firsthand, but peril arises when she is confronted by a dangerous adversary who is stealing from the books she visits and threatening her life, in a first U.S. translation by an award-winning writer from Germany.
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The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose CapettaUsing her out-of-control transformative powers to eliminate her Mafia family's enemies, Teodora disguises herself as a boy and travels across the mountains in search of a wise shapeshifter who can teach her how to control her powers and defeat her nation's corrupt ruler.
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Caraval by Stephanie GarberBelieving that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the show's mastermind organizer.
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Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiComing of age in a land where her magi mother was killed by the zealous king's guards along with other former wielders of magic, Zélie embarks on a journey alongside her brother and a fugitive princess to restore her people's magical abilities.
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A Court of Thorns and roses by Sarah J. MaasDragged off to a treacherous magical land as retribution for killing a wolf, huntress Feyre learns that her captor is one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
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The Cruel Prince by Holly BlackA decade after her parents are murdered by the fey who have kidnapped her and her sisters, Jude harbors a seething hatred for a wicked faerie prince and becomes embroiled in court politics as part of her plan to exact revenge.
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Dark of the West by Joanna HathawayDispatched halfway around the world on a mission to overthrow the queen behind his mother's murder, an undercover pilot falls in love with a quick-witted princess and discovers different perspectives about the war between their families.
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Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda FoodyComing of age within the smoldering borders of the Gomorrah Festival's traveling carnival of fantasy, Sorina uses her rare illusion-creating talents to create family members that she believes do not really exist, until one of them is murdered.
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The Deepest Roots by Miranda AsebedoBorn in a world where all girls are born with a special talent but their gifts feel like curses, best friends Rome, Lux and Mercy discover the collective strength of their bond while exposing disturbing truths about their community.
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Empress of all Seasons by Emiko JeanTraining all her life to win her generation's magical competition and become the next empress of Honoku, Mari hides her identity as a forbidden half-supernatural being while bonding with a prince who has no desire to inherit the throne.
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Eragon
by Christopher Paolini
When fifteen-year-old Eragon comes to learn that he is a gifted Dragon Rider, he realizes that his destiny is to fight the evil powers that will bring complete destruction to the Empire and so leaves his quiet life as a farm boy to succeed in his one true mission in life, in a deluxe edition which includes a foldout map, an expanded pronunciation guide, and an excerpt from the next book in the trilogy.
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Even the Darkest Stars by Heather FawcettA first entry in a planned fantasy duology follows the experiences of a teen mountain-climbing guide who helps a mysterious and eccentric explorer scale the world's most dangerous peak.
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Graceling by Kristin CashoreHaving the ability to kill a man with her bare hands since she was a young girl, Katsa, a Graceling, has been forced to do the king's dirty work for years in order to live in his kingdom, but things change dramatically when she falls in love with Prince Po and secrets about her powers are suddenly revealed.
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Grim Lovelies by Megan ShepherdEnvying the human world where beautiful people enjoy fast cars, high fashion and the freedom to fall in love, 17-year-old Anouk, an enchanted half-animal, half-human slave, is wrongly accused of murdering her witch captor before joining an underground magical society.
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Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesEldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
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The Hush by Skye Melki-WegnerSentenced to death for illegally bending music to his will, Chester is freed by the Nightfall Gang, led by the mysterious Susannah, who wishes to use his gift to exact revenge.
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Inkmistress by Audrey CoulthurstA demigoddess with the power to change the future struggles to protect her world from powers gone dangerously awry, a situation that is further complicated by the destructive intentions of the girl she loves.
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The Iron King by Julie KagawaOn the eve of her 16th birthday, Meghan Chase learns that she is the daughter of the summer faery king, and when her half-brother is kidnapped, she must journey into a fantastical world she never imagined to face an unknown enemy and save the people she loves.
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Isle of Blood and Stone by Makiia LucierWhen two maps surface, each bearing the same hidden riddle, nineteen-year-old Elias, a royal mapmaker, sets sail with King Ulises to uncover long-held secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the king's two young brothers eighteen years earlier.
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Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida CórdovaAlex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back.
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Lady Midnight by Cassandra ClareA first entry in the new Dark Artifices series, a sequel to the internationally best-selling Mortal Instruments series, finds an adult Emma resolving to avenge the deaths of her parents and foil a demonic plot while her parabatai, Julian, struggles to bond with a returned brother who does not recognize him.
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The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. WeymouthFive years ago, Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell cowered from air strikes in a London bomb shelter... and were transported to another realm called the Woodlands. In a forest kingdom populated by creatures out of myth and legend, they found temporary refuge. When they finally returned to London, nothing had changed -- except themselves. Overcome with longing, Ev is desperate to return no matter what it takes. Philippa is determined to find a place in this world, and moves to America to escape the memory of what was. When Evelyn goes missing, Philippa wonders if Ev truly did find a way home, or if the weight of their worlds pulled her under.
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The Novice by Taran MatharuDiscovering his rare ability to summon demons from another world, blacksmith's apprentice Fletcher practices his skills at a magical academy where he prepares to serve his Empire in the war against the Orcs.
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Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn HamiltonLonging to escape her dead-end, completely non-magical town, gunslinger Amani unexpectedly falls in love with exotic stranger Jin, who reveals his identity as a magical rebel in a secret movement to overthrow the Sultan.
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Revenge of the Witch by Joseph DelaneyDespite knowing the doomed outcome of the apprentices before him, twelve-year-old Thomas Ward is determined to learn everything he will need to know to stay alive when his time comes to ward off boggarts, witches, ghosts, and other evil-spirited creatures from the land that he was born to protect.
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Ruined by Amy TinteraPlotting to infiltrate the kingdom of a corrupt ruler who ordered the genocide of her people and murdered her family, Em finds her plans challenged by her growing feelings for the king's son.
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Shadow and Bone by Leigh BardugoOrphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
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Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora PierceA first installment in a highly anticipated new Tortall series follows the experiences of a talented youngest student at the Imperial University of Carthak, who, alongside his best friends Varice and Ozorne, is forced to decide where his true loyalties lie.
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The Thief by Megan Whalen TurnerThe king's scholar, the magus, puts Gen, a prisoner of the king, in charge of stealing an ancient treasure that would allow his king to rule a neighboring country, but Gen is smarter than the magus thinks and his plan takes on an unexpected turn.
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Undercover Princess by Connie GlynnAn everyday girl who longs for extraordinary experiences and a crown princess who wants nothing more than an ordinary life become roommates at an elite boarding school and impulsively swap identities, with unexpected consequences.
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The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams ChimaFourteen-year-old Jack finds out that he is not really an ordinary teenager but the last of a line of magical warriors and a member of Weirlind, who must fight to the death to determine if the house of the White Rose or the Red Rose continues to rule the Weir.
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We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay MejiaA society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after being recruited into a band of rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival.
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A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinA boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
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The Chancellor and the Citadel by Maria Capelle FrantzAfter the world is in ruins and the Citadel is all that remains, a fracture in the populace threatens to tear it all down by accusing the Chancellor, the one person charged with protecting the Citadel, of causing the end of the world in the first place.
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Harry Potter: A Journey Through a History of Magic by British LibraryComplementing the British Library exhibit, provides an overview of the Hogwarts curriculum, covering thousands of years of magic history and displaying artifacts released from the Library's archives, previously-unseen materials, and items from throughout the world.
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